ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — UK & Ireland

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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — UK & Ireland (also known as Index to Theses): The most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the United Kingdom and Ireland, now available on ProQuest.

Expanding ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Content Internationally

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — UK & Ireland (PQDT — UK & Ireland) has been meticulously compiling citations to British and Irish dissertations and theses. The corpus of U.K. and Ireland dissertations and master’s theses in this product currently comprises over half a million records, with some additional 15,000 citations added annually.

The collection offers:

The most comprehensive available listing of theses, with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, since 1716.

Access to bibliographic coverage of theses produced by British and Irish universities.

Bibliographic listings for content for 1950-1986.

Abstracts for content since 1986.

Complete records, with the most comprehensive coverage

A growing number of open-access U.K. and Ireland theses are listed on institutional repositories, but they are only a small percentage of the total number of theses produced annually.

Unlike institutional repositories, PQDT — UK & Ireland does not rely on individual academics to upload their works, ensuring coverage from leading British universities. PQDT — UK & Ireland also offers consistent bibliographic standards across all records, and easy cross searching of all U.K. graduate works, as well as global coverage when combined with ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT).

Valued content that’s affordable and precise

The United Kingdom and Ireland boast many of the world’s leading research universities. Graduate works from British and Irish institutions have been frequently requested by ProQuest’s existing PQDT customers.

And because PQDT — UK & Ireland is on the ProQuest platform, other benefits include:

No need for training: PQDT — UK & Ireland is as easy as using PQDT. Access this unique collection of dissertation records without having to learn how to navigate a new interface.

Cross search with other ProQuest products for higher usage rates, with less library administration.

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The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes nearly 3 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.

The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes nearly 3 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.

In the first of a series of posts by members of our dissertations team, Paul Waldock, Content Manager, shares his favorite example of how an old dissertation was dusted off and brought to light for the furtherance of scholarly research.